> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getrivet.ca/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# The session workspace
> A tour of the in-call layout — the main stage, your own camera tile, the toolbar, and every button on it.
Once you and your client have both joined, the pre-join card slides away
and the workspace mounts. The layout is intentionally close to what every
practitioner has already used in Zoom or Google Meet — your client fills
most of the screen, you sit in a corner tile, the toolbar lives at the
bottom. The differences are clinical: EMDR is one tap away, the
screen-share button opens a picker that includes the whiteboard, and your
own face stays visible to your client even when you're sharing.
## The layout
```
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ │
│ Your client's video │
│ (main stage, full-bleed) │
│ │
│ │
│ ┌─────────┐ │
│ │ You │ │
│ │ (PiP) │ │
│ └─────────┘ │
│ │
│ ┌──── toolbar (bottom-center) ────┐ │
│ │ 🎤 📷 🖥️ 🧠 📞 │ │
│ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
* **Main stage** — your client's video. Object-fit to contain so their
whole frame is visible regardless of their aspect ratio.
* **PiP tile (bottom-right)** — your own camera, mirrored. This is what
your client sees of you in their main stage.
* **Toolbar (bottom-center)** — five buttons that cover everything you'll
do during a session.
## The toolbar
From left to right:
### Microphone (mute / unmute)
Tap to mute, tap to unmute. The icon flips to show current state — a
slash through the mic means muted. When you're muted, the toolbar tile
also gets a quiet "muted" badge so you can see it at a glance.
If you join the call from the pre-join screen with mic off, the toolbar
button starts in the muted state. Tap once to unmute.
### Camera (on / off)
Tap to turn your camera off, tap again to turn it back on. When your
camera is off, your client sees a clean placeholder where your face was.
Your audio keeps working.
### Share screen
Opens a small picker with two options:
* **Share Screen** — your operating system's standard screen picker opens.
Pick a window or your whole screen. Your client sees the shared content
in their main stage and your camera shrinks to a corner tile on their
side. See [Sharing your screen](/video-sessions/screen-sharing).
* **Whiteboard** — mounts an interactive whiteboard in the same shared
surface. You draw, your client sees it. See
[Whiteboard](/whiteboard/overview).
While you're sharing, the same button flips to "Stop sharing" — tap to
end the share and return to the standard video layout.
This button is host-only. Your client doesn't see a share button on their
side and can't initiate a share themselves.
### EMDR
Opens the EMDR configuration modal. From there you set the speed
(0.4–2.0 Hz), the bilateral stimulation modality (visual, auditory, or
both), and any dual-task prompt, then tap Start Set 1. The EMDR workspace
takes over the main stage — the client sees the BLS, you see a
practitioner-only HUD with controls and SUDS prompts between sets.
This button is host-only. The client never sees an EMDR button and
can't trigger BLS. See [EMDR overview](/emdr/overview).
EMDR's bilateral stimulation has a hard 2.0 Hz speed cap, and the first
time you open EMDR you'll see a one-time photosensitive epilepsy
advisory. Read
[Photosensitive epilepsy safety](/emdr/photosensitive-epilepsy-safety)
before your first EMDR session.
### End call
The red phone button on the far right. Tap to end the session. Both you
and your client see a summary card with the session duration.
A single tap on End Call triggers a full teardown — the camera, mic,
EMDR audio, screen share, whiteboard, templates — everything that was
running shuts down at once so nothing bleeds onto the post-call screen.
See [Ending a session](/video-sessions/ending-a-session).
### Clinical templates (floating button)
A **Clinical templates** button sits in the top-right corner of the
session — separate from the bottom toolbar. Tap it to search the template
library, push a form to your client, or open a private note you fill
yourself. This button is host-only; your client never sees it.
## Where the client's experience differs
The client's toolbar shows mic, camera, and end-call only. They never see
the share-screen, EMDR, or whiteboard buttons. This is deliberate —
clinical tools belong to the practitioner.
The client can still mute themselves, turn off their camera, and end the
call. The end-call button on either side closes the session for both.
## What's NOT in the workspace
* **A chat panel.** Conversations happen out-of-call in the SMS thread,
not in a sidebar inside the session. Keeps the focus on the
client.
* **A participants list.** It's a 1:1 session; there are no other
participants.
* **Layout switcher (gallery vs. speaker view).** With 1:1 sessions, the
layout is always client-as-main + you-as-PiP. No layout choices to
make.
* **Reactions, emoji, hand-raise.** Not part of a therapy session.
* **Record button.** Sessions are never recorded.
## Related articles
The mute, camera, and copy-link details.
What happens when you tap Share Screen.
The end-call teardown and the summary card.